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Monday, February 10, 2014

The Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy was written by Douglas Adams and is a work of non-fiction.
I have read many wonderful books in the past and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
is the kind of book I enjoy. It is a well-crafted sci-fi story about a man
named Arthur Dent who is sort of depressed with the nonsense of his life. He
gets taken off the earth after the world’s apocalypse and put into an intergalactic
adventure on a spaceship called the “Heart of Gold”. He goes on this adventure
that takes him through such an uncomfortably absurd universe. There are others
on his quest with him, including a friend of his who was secretly an alien
living on earth for 15 years before the apocalypse. Also on the adventure were a
woman Arthur met at a cocktail party, although he never got fully acquainted
with her and a man with his eyes set on traveling through the universe. The
adventure is set on such an excellent scale. It sometimes has moments when it
thinks about the world around us and has an interesting inquiry about the
tendencies of us humans. The book is written with a wonderful sense of humor,
highlighted by one alien species’ attempts to mess with the protagonists’ heads
with bad poetry.

The writing includes
a lot of detail and usually makes a joke about the human race. Some jokesmay be about digital watches or others about
being careful what you say. This book can make you laugh at times and can also
allow you to think carefully about a situation so you can get a better
understanding of the plot. So hang on tight to your seatbelts and get ready for
a wonderful adventure through the universe in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.